So has SE confirmed they don't want us playing the game?

[Alleo]

You only have to do it once, though. I think a timer npc should have been added for convenience, but it seems to spawn often enough to not be an issue. The big problem simply was they didn't tell us it despawns, and that it didn't start spawning when the event went live. Someone slipped up there, you should always let that kind of information be known.

But if you only have maybe two days time to do the event thanks to personal/business stuff, then you might be unlucky and miss this part of the event, which never happened before. And whats with the people that might only be able to play 2 hours a day. What if they just always miss it because its not in the slot they can play?

For devs that should know how many play this casually this is just bad.